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Security Risks of Unsigned ClickOnce Manifests

Using signed manifests in ClickOnce deployments, it is not possible to modify files after the deployment package has been published – installation will fail as hash information in the manifest won’t match up with the modified files. I recently stumbled upon a situation where this was problematic – customers need to be able to set things like connection strings in app.config before deploying the software to their users.

Security Risks of Unsigned ClickOnce Manifests

Using signed manifests in ClickOnce deployments, it is not possible to modify files after the deployment package has been published – installation will fail as hash information in the manifest won’t match up with the modified files. I recently stumbled upon a situation where this was problematic – customers need to be able to set things like connection strings in app.config before deploying the software to their users.

Sharing dlls in a software deployment

We are moving our software project from the practically auto-creating Visual Studio Installer in Visual Studio 2010 to a WiX installer. I’d like to use this change to make sure things are right.

Sharing dlls in a software deployment

We are moving our software project from the practically auto-creating Visual Studio Installer in Visual Studio 2010 to a WiX installer. I’d like to use this change to make sure things are right.